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It's amazing that intelligent people often accept material answers to immaterial questions like memory, consciousness and thought. As if those questions could e
by ExpiredLink 13y ago
It's amazing that intelligent people often accept material answers to immaterial questions like memory, consciousness and thought. As if those questions could ever be answered by natural sciences.
- polemic 13y agoIt's amazing that intelligent people can assume that questions of memory, consciousness and thought cannot be answered by the natural sciences. Given our species long history of pushing back the boundaries of mysticism, fear and uncertainty, it would seem presumptuous to doubt that our own minds are somehow exempt from the rules of the natural world.
- ExpiredLink 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concept_of_Mind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concept_of_Mind
- gems 13y agoIf you could actually define those words in a rigorous way, maybe then we'd be able to have a conversation about whether or not they are material. Too bad nobody really knows what consciousness is. Do you have some insight that nobody else has? It's pretty clear there is a physical basis for cognition. Some extremely pedantic philosophers may not come to the same conclusion though. If you have any doubts, here's how you can find out: get a friend to beat your head in with a baseball bat (made with preferably something tough like steel or titanium).